I published a quick tutorial on writing your first Office 365 API app using Ruby on Rails . The tutorial takes you from creating a new Rails project to listing the contents of the user's Inbox using the Mail API . I'd love to get feedback on the tutorial. What do you think of the form...

The next few steps are about installing Ruby. The first is to get CURL installed. cURL is a computer software project providing a library and command-line tool for transferring data using various protocols. It will be used to install RVM, the Ruby Version Manager. But RVM requires Gnu...

In this second part, we are going to install MongoDB on a separate server, and get our Ruby on Rails talking to it! I am going to use the second VM we created in the previous post , as a reminder we used a command like this: $ azure vm create testruby "CANONICAL__Canonical-Ubuntu-12-0...

In this blog post in two parts, I will show you how to deploy a set of Linux Virtual Machines running in Windows Azure, running the Ruby on Rails stack with a MongoDB back-end. The challenge is to do it without ever touching a Windows client machine, and using only the Linux command-l...

Just a quick note that I've udpated a previous blog post (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/silverlining/archive/2011/09/14/using-active-record-with-sql-azure.aspx ) on connecting to SQL Database from ActiveRecord. It should be current as of 3/12/2013 using Rails 3.2.12, activerecord 3.2.12, ac...